The club, on London's Oxford Street, apparently has to pay rent of £166,000 a year including VAT, plus rates of £4,000 a month.

Club owner Jeff Horton told the Evening Standard, "It makes me so angry. The Government, Westminster council and even some of the commercial landlords say they want to help small businesses, they say they want to preserve London's uniqueness, they want to help multi-cultural venues. Yet we're all that and all these organisations have all dumped on ...